scholarly journals Hydrologic conditions and simulation of groundwater and surface water in the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia and North Carolina

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack R. Eggleston ◽  
Jeremy D. Decker ◽  
Jason S. Finkelstein ◽  
Frederic C. Wurster ◽  
Paul E. Misut ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Surface Water ◽  
Great Dismal Swamp ◽  
Dismal Swamp ◽  
Hydrologic Conditions

Appropriating Law in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Dred

2007 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 380-406 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura H. Korobkin
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Slave System ◽  
Personal Beliefs ◽  
Great Dismal Swamp ◽  
Dismal Swamp ◽  
The World ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Individual

This essay investigates Harriet Beecher Stowe's interpolation of State v. Mann, a harsh 1829 North Carolina proslavery decision, into her 1856 novel Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp. The essay argues that Stowe's use of State v. Mann continues a conversation about slavery that had been carried on through its text for many years in abolitionist writings. Bringing State v. Mann's circulation history into view shows Stowe engaging the antislavery establishment as well as the legal system, borrowing and imitating its techniques for handling proslavery materials. If her novel is infiltrated and structured by the many legal writings that it assimilates, its fictive world in turn infiltrates, interprets, and alters the significance of the writings she employs, so that proslavery legal writings are made to testify strongly against the slave system that they originally worked to maintain and enforce. Stowe's hybrid text dominates the law while smoothly assimilating it into an interpretive fictive context. Simultaneously, Stowe's typographical cues remind readers of State v. Mann's ongoing, destructive extratextual legal existence. By linking fictive context to legal content, Stowe's novel suggests that slave law must be read and interpreted as a unit that includes the individual suffering it imposes. Misreading State v. Mann as revealing its author's belief in the immorality of slavery, Stowe constructs a fictional judge who upholds slave law despite his personal beliefs. By absorbing, imitating, and besting the strategies and the reach of both legal and abolitionist writings, Dred implicitly stakes a claim for the superior power of political fiction to act in the world.

Wild’s African Legion

2019 ◽  
pp. 245-250
Author(s):  
Philip Gerard
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
White Population ◽  
Black Soldiers ◽  
Great Dismal Swamp ◽  
Dismal Swamp ◽  
The U.S

Brig Gen. Edward Augustus Wild raises the first two of four eventual regiments of black troops, largely from escaped slaves congregating at the Freedman’s Colony on Roanoke island or at New Bern. One of his subordinates, Col. Alonzo G. Draper of the 2nd North Carolina Colored Volunteers, eager to prove that black soldiers can fight, leads 118 hand-picked officers and men into a region infested with guerrillas and retaliates against snipers and smugglers-and frees 500 slaves. Inspired by Draper’s success, Wild launches an expedition with 2,000 troops through the Great dismal Swamp and six North Carolina Counties, destroying four guerrilla camps and burning the farms, homes, and distilleries of rebels while liberating 2,500 enslaved blacks-many of whom join the U.S. Army. The black troops strike terror into a white population that has long lived in fear of a slave uprising, adopting draconian codes against runaways. They comport themselves “with admirable discipline” in the words of a newspaperman who covers the raid, and prove themselves fierce and reliable fighters.

Food of the Red Bat Lasiurus borealis in Winter in the Great Dismal Swamp, North Carolina and Virginia

1997 ◽  
Vol 137 (2) ◽  
pp. 408 ◽  
Author(s):  
John O. Whitaker Jr. ◽  
Robert K. Rose ◽  
Thomas M. Padgett
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Lasiurus Borealis ◽  
Great Dismal Swamp ◽  
Dismal Swamp

scholarly journals Description and taxonomic analysis of a tuberculated turtle leech from the Outer Banks, North Carolina, USA, provisionally identified as Placobdella multilineata Moore, 1953 (Hirudinea: Glossiphoniidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4991 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-35
Author(s):  
ROY T. SAWYER
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
Comprehensive Description ◽  
Outer Banks ◽  
Taxonomic Analysis ◽  
Great Dismal Swamp ◽  
Dismal Swamp ◽  
Habitat Similarity

A tuberculated species of turtle leech is indigenous to the Great Dismal Swamp and environs of northeastern North Carolina, and differs from other known species of Placobdella. This study of hundreds of specimens for more than a decade documents its unexpected taxonomic complexity. In fact, this seemingly innocuous leech undergoes radical transformations in terms of morphology and behaviour, each adapted to a different phase of its life cycle. Biological observations reveal a progressive darkening with age which imposes taxonomic uncertainties. Furthermore, some commonly used characters are found to be unsound for taxonomic diagnosis in that they do not occur in all individuals of this species. The primary objective of this paper is a comprehensive description of this Albemarle turtle leech. The question is then asked, what distinguishes it from allied species? Toward this end, a formal taxonomic diagnosis is proposed based on details of the proboscis complex and crop-related tuberculation. This species is allied to the northern P. rugosa (Verrill, 1874) or its southern counterpart P. multilineata Moore, 1953. However, synonymy to either of these forms is problematical due to inadequacy of type descriptions. Nonetheless, in view of habitat similarity the Albemarle leech is provisionally identified as P. multilineata pending comparable studies of variability and development of other tuberculated Placobdella.  

Observations on the terrestrial leech Haemopis septagon Sawyer & Shelley, 1976 (Annelida: Hirudinea) from the Outer Banks, North Carolina, USA, with a revision of the species

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4658 (2) ◽  
pp. 275-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
ROY T. SAWYER
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Original Description ◽  
The United States ◽  
Internal Anatomy ◽  
Outer Banks ◽  
Great Dismal Swamp ◽  
Dismal Swamp ◽  
Elusive Species ◽  
First Time ◽  
Two Populations

The terrestrial leech Haemopis septagon Sawyer & Shelley, 1976, is indigenous to the Great Dismal Swamp and environs of northeastern North Carolina and southeastern Virginia, USA. Ever since its discovery in 1895 at Lake Drummond in the Dismal Swamp, this elusive species has been recognized as taxonomically aberrant. For example, it is the only jawed leech in the United States with seven annuli between gonopores, and the only one with sixteen complete (5-annulate) segments, both highly conserved characters in the Hirudinidae.                The discovery of two populations of H. septagon in the Albemarle Peninsula in the Outer Banks region of North Carolina afforded an opportunity to investigate the taxonomy and biology of this inadequately characterized species. Its description in this study is the first comprehensive account of the external and internal anatomy of this species since its incomplete original description in 1976. This study is also an opportunity to correct errors in the incomplete original description, and to elucidate morphological and developmental variability of taxonomic significance. Evidence is presented for the first time of a possible aquatic or semi-aquatic form of H. septagon.                These Albemarle individuals were compared to the holotype from Durham County, NC, specimens from southeastern Virginia and a terrestrial leech recently reported from southern New Jersey. All of these fall within the variability demonstrated in this study for the Albemarle populations, and are accordingly recognized as the same species, H. septagon.  Consequentially, Haemopis ottorum Wirchansky & Shain, 2010, is recognized as a junior synonym of Haemopis septagon.

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